Nurses' Perceptions of Health Care Learning Organizational Culture and Their Readiness for Change

Abstract: Healthcare organizations aspire to improve safety and quality in a changing environment, learning organizations' practices can help to reinforce existing skills and knowledge and provide opportunities to find better ways of working. Aim: examine the relationship between nurses' perceptions of health care learning organizational culture and their readiness for change at Kafr El-Dawar General hospital.  Study design: A descriptive, correlational research design was used in this study. Setting: This study was carried out in all intensive and critical care units; and inpatient units (medical and surgical) at Kafr El-Dawar General hospital (N=22).  with bed capacity (N=278).  Subject: All staff nurses, who are working in the previously mentioned settings and who were available at the time of data collection and with at least one year of experience, were included in the study (N=270).Tool Ӏ: Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ). Tool ӀӀ:  Attitudes Toward Change Survey (ATCS). Results: The finding of this study revealed that the vast majority of staff nurses had high level of learning organizational culture and high level of readiness for change. Conclusion: The present study shows that there is positive statistical significant relationship between learning organizational culture and readiness for change. Moreover, there are positive high statistical significant relationship between learning organizational culture and all it's dimensions; and between readiness for change and all its dimensions. Recommendations: Investigate how learning organizational culture can be effectively connected in practice to other basic concepts, such as job satisfaction, job performance or organizational commitment.

Keywords: Learning organizational culture, Readiness for change, and Learning organization.

Title: Nurses' Perceptions of Health Care Learning Organizational Culture and Their Readiness for Change

Author: Lobna Abd Elaziz Saad Abd Elaziz, Reem Mabrouk Abd El Rahman, Wafaa Hassan Mostafa

International Journal of Novel Research in Healthcare and Nursing

ISSN 2394-7330

Vol. 10, Issue 3, September 2023 - December 2023

Page No: 1-13

Novelty Journals

Website: www.noveltyjournals.com

Published Date: 06-September-2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8321320

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